Livyers Cultural Alliance

What is a Livyer?

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a Livyer as:

(a) A permanent settler or resident of coastal Newfoundland (especially as opposed to visiting British fishermen). (b) A permanent settler or resident of the coast of Labrador (as opposed to visiting Newfoundland fishermen).

The Livyers' story is our history of living off the land through fishing, trapping and trading.

Welcome to the Livyers Cultural Alliance, a group of people that gather to cook and eat together for the purposes of embracing our cultural food, our traditions and our way of life. A supper club of sorts and if you would like to join us for a meal please contact me personally at lorimccarthy@bellaliant.net as this is not part of Cod Sounds but my personal passion.

Preserving our cultural food has been a passion for me throughout the years. The Livyers Alliance is an opportunity to keep these culinary cultural traditions alive and pass them on to current and future generations.

We want you to be a part of this...

We are cultural food enthusiasts of various ages and life experience. We come together to appreciate and celebrate this land and our cultural food. We host regular cooking events and traditional food preparation gatherings that you can take part in on a first come, first serve basis. If you would like to join us, contact me at lorimccarthy@bellaliant.net

How we work:

We will send out an e-mail with the upcoming planned gathering and if you are interested in joining us simply let us know by phone or e-mail. Each event will have an associated cost and we will all contribute to the cost of the gathering.

I encourage you to start your own cultural food alliance in your community! Our province is vast with regional diversity from one end to the other. Start your own alliance and bring together people in your community to cook, share, document your recipes and pass on our food culture to our future generations.